Most Americans understand the severity of the manmade financial crisis and understand why the government must become involved. Most Americans want corporate executives whose greed and lack of judgment caused this crisis to be held accountable. These executives gambled and lost. They should not be permitted to get rich at the taxpayers' expense. So go ahead and help but hold senior management liable. No golden parachutes. No senior management compensation until the corporation is solvent once again. No member of senior management should be permitted to leave before solvency and until that, no compensation.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Better Watch Out
Remember back in the 80s when the restrictions on the kinds of loans S & L's could make were relaxed? Soon the executives took advantage of the loosened rules to commit fraud.
Remember Charles Keating
Remember how the taxpayers had to pay the bill for the crimes? Remember how executives how rich?
The American taxpayer is getting tired of Washington
The American taxpayer will not take it for long. Somebody had better be going to jail…..
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Corporate Welfare State
Here we go again, corporations make terrible decisions, corporate management gets rich and the taxpayers get stuck with the bill. If the Federal Government has to bail out a company then "we the people" should own that company. Senior management must be removed without severance. The company does not become private until whatever the Federal government paid is repaid plus interest.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
You Try It
I have enjoyed working here these past several years. You have paid me very well, given me benefits beyond belief. I have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary till the day I die and a health plan that most people can only dream about.
Despite this I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position.
During this time I will show up for work when it is convenient. In addition I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yeah, if my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in the matter. I can and will do this.
Sincerely,
Every Senator or Congressman running for President.
Every Senator or Congressman running for President.
And you wonder why politicians have such a poor image.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Friday, September 19, 2008
We are not winning in Iraq
Governor Palin:
We are not winning in Iraq Viet Nam Middle East can destroy us along with themselves.
Governor Palin, you are a fresh face in the campaign and will probably mean victory for John McCain. When you speak of a do-nothing congress, keep in mind John McCain was part of that congress, republican lead for 7 years with a republican president. Maintain your integrity, ethics and honesty.....
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Good Job George!!!
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Customers are interested in results
As I scan The Mountain Press occasionally I read your entire column. I've always found the subject of today's column fascinating.
I am retired from The Mead Corporation, Dayton , OH
One day my boss and his peers met to identify what customers (external) wanted. The first decision was to bring in a consultant to help them understand what customers wanted. I told him that was a wasted decision he and his peers and his boss (CEO) already knew what customers wanted, he and each of them are customers, so what do they want? How many of us want food that should be hot, cold and food that should be cold, hot. How many of us prefer low quality products, delivered late, and over priced? How many of us enjoy hearing "I don't know" from the expert? Anyone who does not know what customers want may be to naive or dangerous to be permitted to associate with others.
Generally senior managers are timid hiding behind consultants who tell them things they already know. I understand it is political. If they are wrong it is the consultants fault; American businesses lack leadership and courage. As Lee Iacocca
You are correct about the ducks, smooth on the surface but paddling like crazy below. The public does not see the extra things the Michael Jordans and Tiger Woods do just so they can make their jobs look easy. Senior managers do not understand either. When one of them wants to know what customers want you know you have a pigeon ripe for the plucking..
Should be good news for your line of work…
I wish you well….
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
The American Taxpayer Will Not Be Pushed Around Forever
In the 70s the following businesses were freed from the cumbersome weight of government regulation. Look at them today and see how far they have come left to their own devices: airlines, trucking, railroads, buses, pipelines, telephones, television, stockbrokers, financial markets, savings banks, utilities. How many of them have required taxpayer assistance just to remain in business. If the taxpayers are to support them the taxpayer should have a say in the way business is conducted. No one is accountable. Senior managers get rich outsourcing to other countries leaving the taxpayers to support those left without jobs. Senior managers get rich leading their companies into bankruptcy while at the same time leaving the taxpayers to pay the bills. Unethical, illegal and dishonest business practices must become capital crimes where the guilty are either executed or sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity of parole and all assets remotely associated with the activities forfeited.
Somebody had better be going to jail or the next "civil" war will be between those who have stolen and those who were left to pay the bills. The American taxpayer will not be pushed around forever.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Sarah Palin Has More Applicable ExperiencesThan Anyone Else Running.
Palin has a stronger resume।
Sarah Palin has been a real mayor, Obama has । he was a real governor he has not been. She was in charge of the Alaska National Guard, he has not. She was a whistler blower who defeated an incumbent mayor. Obama has never once shown that sort of courage. Sarah Palin was a whistler blower who turned in the chairmen of her own party and got him fined $12,000. I am not aware Obama has done anything like that. Palin took on the incumbent governor of her own party and beat him and then she beat a former democratic governor in the general election। What has Obama done except talk and write?
John McCain has more experience being a senator than Obama। McCain received more votes to be president than Biden received. Sarah Palin has more applicable experiences than either Obama or Biden.
Tell me who is more qualified than Sarah Palin.
Hagel is out of touch with reality
Note to Senator Hagel, of Nebraska...............
Concerning Sarah Palin's qualifications, or lack of same, who do you believe is qualified, you, that's a laugh? You and your fellow senators have done so little you are labeled the "Do Nothing Congress." What are you qualified for? Just another do nothing government worker.
Harry Truman was kept out of the loop by FDR but he managed to survive the presidency and Korean war.
Commentators and you claim Sarah Palin is not qualified on every jot and tittle of the job, who is? For her to lack your qualifications IS A GOOD THING!!!
With all of the corruption in business not being qualified to be a CEO is high praise indeed. With the corruption (ear marks) in the Senate not being a member of the Senate is a GOOD THING!!
For Obama to choose Biden, whom the Democrats shouted they do not want to be president shows just how narrow mind you and your fellow senators are. You are out of touch with the people. The reason you get reelected is not due to you but due to the lazyness of honest, ethical, and moral people.
Instead of being negative how can you help her? She will win. McCain will win in a landslide. Wait and see.
Concerning Sarah Palin's qualifications, or lack of same, who do you believe is qualified, you, that's a laugh? You and your fellow senators have done so little you are labeled the "Do Nothing Congress." What are you qualified for? Just another do nothing government worker.
Harry Truman was kept out of the loop by FDR but he managed to survive the presidency and Korean war.
Commentators and you claim Sarah Palin is not qualified on every jot and tittle of the job, who is? For her to lack your qualifications IS A GOOD THING!!!
With all of the corruption in business not being qualified to be a CEO is high praise indeed. With the corruption (ear marks) in the Senate not being a member of the Senate is a GOOD THING!!
For Obama to choose Biden, whom the Democrats shouted they do not want to be president shows just how narrow mind you and your fellow senators are. You are out of touch with the people. The reason you get reelected is not due to you but due to the lazyness of honest, ethical, and moral people.
Instead of being negative how can you help her? She will win. McCain will win in a landslide. Wait and see.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Spur Allows Denial
Gatlinburg City Commissioners:
Gatlinburg City Manager:
In today's The Mountain Press, Wednesday, September 17th there is an article with Gatlinburg businesses whining how the improvements on the Spur are cutting into their bottom-line. No one mentions that without the improvements visitors might elect not to drive the Spur. Gatlinburg businesses are paranoid about being cut off from civilization. And the odd thing is being isolated is what makes Gatlinburg, Gatlinburg.
It is interesting how the businesses in Gatlinburg complain they are difficult to get to. Being remote is what makes Gatlinburg special. Not being like or part of Pigeon Forge or Sevierville makes Gatlinburg special. The more Gatlinburg businesses mimic Pigeon Forge and Sevierville the more they will lose.
Why should anyone fight the traffic to come to Gatlinburg to visit a "water park" when there are probably a half dozen or more between the interstate and light 10 in Pigeon Forge? Why should anyone fight the traffic to shop in Gatlinburg when there are outlets and specialty stores by the zillions between the interstate and light 10 in Pigeon Forge? Why should anyone fight the traffic to visit Gatlinburg? If at least 5 reasons do not immediately come to mind you understand how much trouble Gatlinburg is in.
Gatlinburg must be different or Gatlinburg will become a ghost town...Hopefully you and the business owners will recognize that what is happening before it is too late, which it just might already be.
The Spur work permits denial. As the park spokesman says the Spur is not stopping people from entering at Cherokee or Townsend . Lacking those 5 reasons, Gatlinburg may not be the draw it dreams it is meaning it is time to regroup. You can always hope the Muslims find Gatlinburg a draw and maybe they will build Mecca West right here.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Not Being Qualified to be CEO is a Positive Trait!!!
We have to reject the mindset that the primary path to good government is to become more like businesses. We must reject the mindset that believes that to qualify to be a member of congress or a senator or a governor or president requires that one be a good business leader.
Most businesses fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are worth copying. Many widely practiced business norms correlate with mediocrity, and are not worthy propagating.
So why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into government?
Great government requires disciplined planning, disciplined people, disciplined governance, disciplined allocation of resources. Great government is begging for people that are honest, moral, and ethical. Where oh where can we find them?
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Palin not a CEO is a Good Thing
For those commentators who claim Sarah Palin is not qualified to be a CEO and therefore not qualified to be Vice President or President I must shout THAT IS A GOOD THING!!! With all of the corruption in business not being qualified to be a CEO is high praise indeed. Being a CEO is not something one should brag about...
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Fear and Uncertainty
In his article, "Waters retains chair's seat," Derek Hodges County Commission Larry Waters
With Oakes admitting before the vote Waters would certainly win he was attempting to distance himself from whomever put his name in the bucket. And with all his comments about how much he supported, supports, and will support Waters he was begging Waters to not hold a grudge. After all it is not Oakes' fault "someone" nominated him. Oakes' fear shows in his "he feels it MIGHT be time for change" and "the question of separating powers" comments. Come on wiener it is time for change or it is not time for a change. It is a violation of the separation of powers or it is not. If you do not have courage to standup for your convictions get off the commission make room for someone who will.
Thanks to Derek Hodge Waters does hold a grudge….
After Waters "won re-election" the "chorus" of supporters were also begging Waters not to hold them accountable. My guess is many of those in attendance had to go home and change their underwear….
Governor:
I encourage you to initiate an investigation into the rapid rise of the price of gasoline. If state government does not protect its citizens what is its purpose?
Dear Friend:
Thank you for your message about the current spike in the price of gasoline. The effects of storm systems active in the Gulf Coast are now being felt by Tennesseans at the gas pump. Prices for fuel have risen dramatically, and a rise in gas prices was anticipated as hurricane activity increased on the Gulf Coast, where a substantial portion of the country's gas supply is produced.
Even so, I am determined to address the issues surrounding gasoline supply in Tennessee. I have warned individuals and businesses who engage in gasoline price-gouging in no uncertain terms that we will be very tough and very aggressive on people who take advantage of this situation. I expect that no one will try to capitalize on the effects of these storms at the expense of Tennesseans, who are already struggling with high gas prices.
Along with my entire administration, I am taking this situation very seriously. Under Tennessee law, price-gouging is illegal. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance will be working with the state Attorney General's office to pursue aggressively anyone who violates that law.
As this situation continues to develop, the State's Division of Consumer Affairs is warning consumers to be on the lookout for potential price-gougers and is offering our citizens information on how they can report possible price-gouging. Consumers may contact the Division of Consumer Affairs at www.tn.gov/consumer or call at 615-741-4737 or toll-free at 800-342-8385, to report incidences of suspected price-gouging. Consumers will need to provide the name of the gas station, its address, and the price and grade of the gas being sold. Citizens also may report suspected price-gouging online to the federal government at http://gaswatch.energy.gov/.
In addition, the Commissioners of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation have been active in pursuing policies to increase the availability, movement and sale of gasoline to Tennessee consumers during this period. You can be sure that I am making every effort to protect the best interests of the people of Tennessee.
Warmest regards,
Phil Bredesen
I encourage you to initiate an investigation into the rapid rise of the price of gasoline. If state government does not protect its citizens what is its purpose?
Dear Friend:
Thank you for your message about the current spike in the price of gasoline. The effects of storm systems active in the Gulf Coast are now being felt by Tennesseans at the gas pump. Prices for fuel have risen dramatically, and a rise in gas prices was anticipated as hurricane activity increased on the Gulf Coast, where a substantial portion of the country's gas supply is produced.
Even so, I am determined to address the issues surrounding gasoline supply in Tennessee. I have warned individuals and businesses who engage in gasoline price-gouging in no uncertain terms that we will be very tough and very aggressive on people who take advantage of this situation. I expect that no one will try to capitalize on the effects of these storms at the expense of Tennesseans, who are already struggling with high gas prices.
Along with my entire administration, I am taking this situation very seriously. Under Tennessee law, price-gouging is illegal. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance will be working with the state Attorney General's office to pursue aggressively anyone who violates that law.
As this situation continues to develop, the State's Division of Consumer Affairs is warning consumers to be on the lookout for potential price-gougers and is offering our citizens information on how they can report possible price-gouging. Consumers may contact the Division of Consumer Affairs at www.tn.gov/consumer or call at 615-741-4737 or toll-free at 800-342-8385, to report incidences of suspected price-gouging. Consumers will need to provide the name of the gas station, its address, and the price and grade of the gas being sold. Citizens also may report suspected price-gouging online to the federal government at http://gaswatch.energy.gov/.
In addition, the Commissioners of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation have been active in pursuing policies to increase the availability, movement and sale of gasoline to Tennessee consumers during this period. You can be sure that I am making every effort to protect the best interests of the people of Tennessee.
Warmest regards,
Phil Bredesen
Jackson's Blunder
It is fascinating listening to everyone explaining away Jackson's monstrous blunder by saying how fast he is. He is a moron and no one will win a championship relying on him. No one....
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Baby, Fetus, Blob, or Parasite
Abortion by hysterectomy: the woman was probably into the third trimester and the child she was carrying weighed over two pounds. Failing to kill the baby prior to delivery the doctors went ahead with delivery and put the baby in a bucket. The baby tried to breathe and tried to cry and the doctors and nurses pretended it was not there. This is a group of people who promised to "do no harm."
Those who support abortion rights describe the child in the womb as a parasite that the woman has a right to expel from her body. The same argument justifies infanticide since it applies to an infant outside the womb: newborns require even more attention and care and in that sense are even more parasitic.
We can only imagine a country's future whose citizens refer to a growing child in a mother's womb as a parasite. Whether it is war or abortion, the reality of violent acts is hidden through linguistic contrivances meant to devalue human lives found to be inconvenient. Dead citizens are "collateral damage" and ignored or rationalized away. Native Americans and Blacks were considered less than human.
An expectant mother is asked how their baby is doing. They do not ask how her fetus is doing or her blob of tissue or her parasite.
Think about it…
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Charlie Gibson Failed Miserably
Charlie Gibson failed miserably in his"interview" with Sarah Palin. Charlie was arrogant and failed as an unbiased reporter. Anytime Charlie is on the screen, I will change channel. I will not watch unfair reporters.
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Wall Street Dishonest, Unethical, Immoral
With all of these Wall Street businesses going bankrupt and all these CEOs getting bonuses someone had better be going to jail.
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
When Will the Media Learn
When will you learn? A CNN reporter following Sarah Palin makes a point of talking about how "scripted" Palin is but when Lou Dobbs questioned her she admitted Palin is no more scripted than Obama and similar to McCain. I changed channels. I will not listen to misleading reporters. Whenever that reporter is on screen I will change channels....
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.
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